Worst movie you could possibly see this summer!

Rating: 2/10 (24 July 2005)

I would give this movie 1 star, but the first half hour of the film was decent. As for the rest of it--well... please, Mr. Michael Bay, stop making movies that insult viewer's intelligence. The film starts as with a nice pace and tone, similar to Blade Runner and THX 1138. Then it takes an odd turn--a turn that feels almost like Michael Bay had a big bag of pre-set action scenes that had to be put into the movie. Mr. Bay reaches into the bag and randomly takes out each of these action scenes and scatters them into the thinning plot, detaching the viewer from the characters and removing any hint of passion that the film's opening act was ready to unfold.
Don't get me wrong, Michael Bay used to handle action scenes quite well. But even the action in The Island cannot justify my ticket price. The action was so over the top it became nonsensical and funny--almost as funny as the nearly insulting use of product placement (of which only one product made me say "ooooh coooooool"; and that was a pretty sweet looking Caddy).
I do have to give the film some credit, Ewan McGregor does a fine acting job as do Steve Buscemi and Sean Bean. And I think Scarlett Johansson is good actor, but hardly saw the point of her character.
To make a long, annoyed review short, if you have any interest in this type of sci-fi movie, please look at Blade Runner, Thx 1138, AI, Alien3 (The director's cut).